[joejozwowski]

Stephen, Now, Obviously, I would plunk that function in my functions.php page, but the two main things that I would like to specify is:

• I need to put this link in a menu
• I would like to specify particular forums the random would link to.

Is this possible with what you have supplied?

[joejozwowski]

Do I need to remove the functions in the function.php page? Because all I am getting is a blank white page.

[joejozwowski]

could I put that in a page or post, rather than the code?

[joejozwowski]

HEY!

I just realized that you are calling $wp.

If the prefix for my database was changed, would this have anything to do with why it is not working?

[joejozwowski]

BTW.. I tried both versions of the $posts = get_posts() calls.

[joejozwowski]

ok… so I pasted the following into my functions.php page:

add_action('init','random_post');
function random_post() {
       global $wp;
       $wp->add_query_var('random');
       add_rewrite_rule('random/?$', 'index.php?random=1', 'top');
}
 
add_action('template_redirect','random_template');
function random_template() {
       if (get_query_var('random') == 1) {
               $posts = get_posts('post_type=post&orderby=rand&numberposts=1');
               foreach($posts as $post) {
                       $link = get_permalink($post);
               }
               wp_redirect($link,307);
               exit;
       }
}

And then in my menu I created a LINK element and pasted this into the URL field:

/?random=1

And all I get is a blank page

[joejozwowski]

Sweet… do I could just put the: “/?random=1” in the URL field of a menu item and BLAM
Fantastic.

Say I wanted to pull from two specific forum topics, how would I incorporate that?